We also use 24 hour time in Aviation here in the US, all the
documentation I get from my company here in the US is in the 24 hour
format so there is no screw-up. I also selected it as an option on the
United Airlines web site, have to log on, then it displays the time in
the format of my choice.
Mike Payne
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Jeremiah MacGregor <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, 01 February 2009 23:12
*Subject:* [USMA:42799] Re: Hot and dry
Stephen,
What does a military dictatorship have to do with military time? In
the US, we call the 24 h time format as military time. It is
because the only time it is used in the US is by the military, at
least as far as the public is aware of.
Jerry
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*From:* Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Sent:* Sunday, February 1, 2009 1:20:37 PM
*Subject:* [USMA:42782] Re: Hot and dry
No.
However most 'metric countries' also use the 24h time format. These
countries tend not to be military dictatorships though.
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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:25:25 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [USMA:42747] Re: Hot and dry
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Stephen,
What do you mean? Are you saying that when we use metric units we
should also use military time too?
Jerry
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*From:* Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, February 1, 2009 10:44:20 AM
*Subject:* [USMA:42747] Re: Hot and dry
"for about 6 hours from about 7:00 last night"
I would have thought 19:00h would have been the better time
measurement for that.
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:42669] Re: Hot and dry
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:17:27 +1100
Dear Jerry,
You might like to reflect on that for a little longer. Consider this
statement from 'the Age' newspaper this morning:
The hottest recorded temperature in Victoria was 45.8 degrees at
Avalon airport, near Geelong, at 5pm on Thursday. This is
from
http://www.theage.com.au/national/as-train-tracks-melted-and-trees-wilted-we-all-went-a-little-bit-troppo-20090130-7u1c.html?page=1
and there is further evidence at
http://www.theage.com.au/national/fire-rages-through-6000-hectares-towards-transmission-lines-20090131-7u7f.html
In Geelong, we lost all electrical supplies, due to a heat-related
circuit fault, for about 6 hours from about 7:00 last night. No
radio, no television, and (wait for it) no air conditioning. The
train tracks buckled and many train services simply ceased,
thousands of commuters who go from Geelong to Melbourne each day
were stranded in Melbourne. Many houses were lost in wild fires
known here as '/bush fires/'
However, look on the bright side. All of the reports in the media,
print, radio, and television use metric units only in their
broadcasts. It is quite rare for anyone to try to dumb the initial
reports down 'for the public'. It seems that the Australian public
is now quite used to weather reports in metric units.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
On 2009/01/31, at 3:27 PM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
Pat,
That right, rub it in! It is bad enough we have freezing cold
of -10~-20 C, but the unplowed roads and the meter plus
mountains of snow are enough to drive one to the happy farm. I
have 50 cm of snow in my yard with piles to 1.6 m. Care to trade?
You could be kind and ship some of that heat towards North America.
Jerry.
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*From:* Pat Naughtin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Sent:* Monday, January 26, 2009 5:49:43 PM
*Subject:* [USMA:42609] Hot and dry
Dear All,
As you enjoy your nice crisp cool winter days, spare a thought
for we folk in the southern hemisphere. In the next few days we
expect the following temperatures:
Tuesday 38 °C
Wednesday 41 °C
Thursday 40 °C
Friday 40 °C
Saturday 40 °C
Sunday 30 °C
See the
article
http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-faces-worst-hot-spell-in-100-years-20090126-7q0c.html
for
the details. Melbourne is the nearest big city to Geelong.
Melbourne is 70 kilometres north-east of Geelong.
You might recall the rhyme:
Zero is freezing,
10 is not,
20 is pleasing,
30 is hot,
40 frying,
50 dying.
I don't know who wrote the first three lines but I added the
last two to consider Australian conditions. We live near the
coast of the Southern Ocean but 200 kilometres inland from us
you can expect the predicted temperatures to be about 3 °C
hotter than here. Swan Hill, for example, will reach 44 °C on
Wednesday and 43 °C on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday..
It's amusing to see chatter in northern hemisphere media reports
about 'global cooling'. You won't get much empathy for that
position here in Australia as we are about to experience our
second driest January in 159 years that is being topped off with
this current heat wave. So far this month Geelong has had 0.4
millimetres of rain compared to a long term average of 35.6
millimetres for January.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to
the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically
that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing,
or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and
resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for
commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in
Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the
Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric
associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA.
See http://www.metricationmatters.com
<http://www.metricationmatters.com/>for more metrication
information, contact Pat at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> or to get the free
'/Metrication matters/' newsletter go
to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that
they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or
selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources
for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial,
industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and
in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google,
NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the
USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com
<http://www.metricationmatters..com/>for more metrication
information, contact Pat at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> or to get the free
'/Metrication matters/' newsletter go
to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter
<http://www..metricationmatters.com/newsletter> to subscribe.
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